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The charity WORLDwrite is delighted to have won a small grant from the Women’s Vote Centenary Grant Scheme to run an extraordinary day of events on International Women’s Day, 8th March. These events will celebrate the first women getting the vote and in particular the campaigning by the East End heroine, suffragette and revolutionary Sylvia Pankhurst.

Sylvia Pankhurst: Everything is Possible Gala Screening

Released in 2011 WORLDwrite’s now acclaimed documentary, Sylvia Pankhurst: Everything is Possible will screen for the first time in a cinema in Hackney. Aspiring young filmmakers worked with industry professionals to produce this in-depth epic which chronicles Sylvia Pankhurst’s inspiring life as a suffragette and revolutionary. Packed with facts from primary sources, rare images from museums and archives, interviews with historians and compelling testimony from Sylvia's son Richard Pankhurst before he passed away in 2016, the impact of an extraordinary woman unfolds.

Sylvia was imprisoned more than any other suffragette for her tireless campaigning and refused to sacrifice the fight for universal suffrage until it was won. Her bravery in fighting for equality and opposing all anti-human trends puts her, as one interviewee explains, 'up there with the angels.'

This film screening is free to attend and school and college groups are most welcome. For group bookings please email world.write@btconnect.com There will be a short drinks reception prior to the screening and brief Q&A with Director Ceri Dingle following the film. The trailer, reviews & DVD are available at www.worldwrite.org.uk/sylviapankhurst